What does Them Bones mean?

Alice In Chains: Them Bones Meaning

Tagged: Death [suggest]
Album cover for Them Bones album cover

Song Released: 1992


Them Bones Lyrics

I Believe Them Bones Are Me
Some Say We're Born Into The Grave
I Feel So Alone
Gonna End Up A Big Ole Pile A Them Bones

Dust Rise Right On Over My Time
Empty Fossil Of The New Scene
I Feel So Alone
Gonna End Up A Big Ole Pile A Them...

  1. Drake
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    Jan 10th 2006 !⃝

    This song is aboutdeath being unavoidable. Jerry Cantrell wrote it when he was probably thinking about death himself. "We are born into the grave", when the person is born he or she begins to die.

  2. anonymous
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    Dec 25th 2005 !⃝

    Jerry Cantrell wrote this, and most AIC songs, so its not from Layne.

  3. anonymous
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    Nov 14th 2005 !⃝

    A great song. A very deep meaning to it though. If you think about the song, it kind of points toward Layne Staley's suicide.

    I believe them bones are mine=this means that he sees himself in a not so good position

    Some say we're born into the grave
    I feel so alone gonna end up a
    Big ole pile a them bones=he feels so alone that he needs to take drugs and if he continues he'll die

    Dust rise right on over my time
    Empty fossil of the new scene
    I feel so alone gonna wind up a
    big ole pile a them bones=He'll rot away mentally and he'll become forgotten after his death because of the increase in other popular music (rap, indie rock, emo, ect)

    Toll due bad dream come true
    I lie dead gone under red sky
    I feel so alone gonna end up a
    Big ole pile a them bones=He predicted that this will happen even when he wished it wouldn't. He'll always be dead and no one will remember him.

    Problem is that, EVERYONE REMEMBERS YOU LAYNE! R.I.P

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